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Rickshaw Investments Ltd v Nicolai Baron von Uexkull

[2007] 1 SLR(R) 377
JurisdictionSingapore
CourtSingapore Court of Appeal
Year2007
StatusBinding authority

Summary

Singapore Court of Appeal established choice of law rules for contractual and tortious claims, confirming lex loci delicti as the prima facie rule for torts and applying double actionability.

Key Principle

conflict of laws; choice of law for contractual and tortious claims

Area of Law

contract

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